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Surface Tension  

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  • The force acting on the surface of a liquid, tending to minimize the area of the surface. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed) Surface tension of the surfaces at the boundary between two immiscible liquids.

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